Learning Vim script

While Vim is my preferred editor of choice, I mostly only used the
text editor with a few plugins and never really delved into scripting
beyond editing my .vimrc.

After finding a few more useful Vim plugins that helped me out,
I started searching for some plugins for Swift. I couldn’t
find any beyond some syntax analysis and integration with
SwiftLint via Syntastic, so I looked into
writing my own plugin for building/testing Swift packages.

Vim script isn’t too difficult to use and it has helped decipher some
of the weird declarations in my .vimrc. For example, I found out
why some variables start with g:some_var_name versus
s:some_var_name; you can find out by doing
:help internal-variables.

If you use Vim, I would seriously spend a day working on building
a simple script since it helps explain a lot and can increase your
Vim knowledge. Even if you’re not using Vim, I would look into how
scriptable your text editor of choice is. For instance, Atom
(or the fork VSCode) seems to be very scriptable as well.

I’ve started a swifty-vim plugin and it has made me
appreciate how much further I can automate and simplify my workflow.